Joy for Kenyan athletes as races are reinstated

Beatrice Chepkoech Sitonik is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She is the current world record holder in that event running 8:44.32 in 2018. With that time she became the first woman to break 8:50 and 8:45. She was also a bronze medallist over 1500 metres at the 2015 African Games. [Courtesy]

Kenya’s world-beating stars have welcomed the reinstatement of 3,000m steeplechase and 5,000m into the Diamond League meetings.